Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Showtime TV Series Controversy and International Gay Lobby: "Homeland, the Jews and Columbia University"

Terra
Incognita: In an inflammatory article, Columbia University academic
Joseph Massad writes, "on the first season of the show, cross-racial
romance seems to have also infected the character of a white rich
American woman."

In 1925 Adolph Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf that Jews must always be
judged first by their ethnoreligious identity; “when talking French his
[the Jews’] thoughts are Jewish and when writing German rhymes he only
gives expression to the character of his own race.” In 2012 Columbia
University Associate Professor Joseph Massad wrote an op-ed for
Al-Jazeera about the television show and CIA thriller Homeland
where he dissected the ethnic-national actions of the characters; “The
African American Estes is divorced and his former wife married an
American Jew... the Jewish Berenson is married to an Indian Hindu
‘brown’ woman (perhaps cementing the Indian Hindu-Israeli Jewish
right-wing alliance against Arabs and Muslims)... one can safely presume
that Israeli Ashkenazi Jews are the accent tutors on the show.”

A worrisome logic connects the 1925 manifesto to the 2012 op-ed.Underlying
the Massadian text is the theory that one’s race determines one’s
actions. Thus a marriage is not a marriage, it is an alliance of the Jew
and the Hindu. Those who watch the show know that the identity of
Estes’ wife is unimportant and few will even be able to figure out where
Massad got this information.

But it reminds one of the sentence from an addendum to the anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion:
“If our daughters marry Goyim they will be no less useful, for the
children of a Jewish mother are [Jewish].” Massad seems to imply that it
is important to know which people have married Jews.

Miscegenation,
the interfaith or interracial affairs of people, especially concerns
Dr. Massad. “On the first season of the show, cross-racial romance seems
to have also infected the character of a white rich American woman who
fell in love with a ‘brown’ mildmannered Saudi professor.”

Here
the word “infected” connotes disease. This fear of racial mixing was
shared by Hitler, who noted, “by continually mixing with other races we
might lift them from their former lower level of civilization to a
higher grade; but we ourselves should descend forever from the heights
we had reached.”Massad’s 2012 manifesto against Homeland
might appear on the face of it an innocent critique of an American
series which he considers anti-Muslim; “The racialist structure of the
show is reflective of American and Israeli fantasies of anti-Muslim
American multiculturalism.” But the polemic should concern all of us for
it represents a disturbing injection of racist abuse and profiling into
the American academy, under the guise of film criticism.

THE
DELIBERATE, repetitive and abusive quality of the endless mentioning of
the ethnicity of the characters marks this as a unique text.
Furthermore, the lack of condemnation of this kind of attack on Jewish
citizens of the US by faculty at a prestigious university shows an
acceptance for the profiling of Jews in society.

It castigates
all Jews as “the Jewish so and so” and marks out those who married Jews
as “his wife is a Jew” or “her husband is a Jew and their children are
converts.” This is in line with the claim in Mein Kampf that all Jews
work in concert; “The international Jew, Kurt Eisner, began to play off
Bavaria against Prussia.”Eisner was a socialist journalist and
statesman, but Hitler viewed him first as a Jew, just as today this
Columbia University faculty member views those on Homeland
through the lens of “the Jewish” and “the Hindu.” Eight of the 10 times
the character Saul Berenson, played by Mandy Pitinkin, is mentioned in
the Massad text he is referred to by his ethno-religious background, as
“the American Jew Saul Berenson... the Jewish Berenson is married... the
Jewish Berenson tells... the Jewish Berenson who... declared by the
Jewish Berenson... the Jewish Berenson declares... protests to the
Jewish Berenson.”

Berenson is stripped of his humanity, his
individual agency, and is transmogrified into “the Jew.” This literary
device is typical of traditional anti-Semitism, such as Charles Dicken’s
portrayal of Fagin “the Jew,” as he is referred to throughout Oliver
Twist, and also the infamous Nazi propaganda film Jew Suss (1940).

It
is important to understand this missive through the lens of racist
anti-Semitic abuse because it is unconscionable that in today’s America,
or anywhere in the world, that a university should stand quietly behind
such racial profiling.

If Dr. Massad describes each character in Homeland
according to their race and religion, it is important to ask what goes
on in his classroom. Is a student just a student or is he “Jewish”
first, “Hindu” first, “African- American” first? Is his reputation
affected, is he perceived as being part of an “Israeli Ashkenazi Jewish
agenda” if he is a Jew, or if his sister married a Jew, or his father
once worked for a Jew? Does he write exams as “the Jewish student” or
simply as a human being? Columbia University’s policy is to not “permit
the harassment of any student or applicant on the basis of race, color,
sex, gender, pregnancy, religion, creed, marital status, partnership
status, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, military
status, or any other legally protected status.”

But this type of profiling would violate that policy.

Massad
ferrets out what he perceives to be the underlying “racialist
structure” of almost every person he mentions in his op-ed. Writing of
the main character Nick Brody, he noted, “his wife is played by the
Brazilian actress Morena Baccarin, who looks suspiciously brown, but
nonetheless is presented as white!” Where does Massad get the idea that
she is “presented as white”? It could be his assumption that the
“all-American nuclear family” is white. However, the show never mentions
the word “white” in relation to Baccarin. Brazil, like the US, is a
multi-cultural country with numerous ethnic and racial groups, and
Baccarin’s father is an Italian. So why is Massad obsessed with her
being “suspiciously brown”? The Columbia University academic thinks it
is important to talk about people as “suspiciously brown.” What is
suspicious? When a Brazilian student attends Columbia and takes a class
with Dr. Massad should the student fear that suspicion is cast on him
for being “brown,” and that if he doesn’t declare his ethnic allegiance,
will he be accused of “presenting himself” as white? The truth is that
Massad’s alarming views have been widespread knowledge among those
concerned about Columbia University’s faculty. In 2004-2005 the
university created an internal committee to examine allegations of
anti-Semitism among its faculty in Middle East Studies. Helpfully,
Massad’s former adviser, Lisa Anderson, sat on the committee; it was
perhaps no surprise the committee found the university and its faculty
innocent.

In 2011 an investigation by the federal government’s
Office for Civil Rights examined allegations that Prof. Rachel McDermott
had “steered” an Orthodox Jewish student away from Massad’s class
because Massad might make her feel “uncomfortable.”

Kenneth
Marcus of the Louis Brandeis Center for Human Rights wrote that “the
bigger issue is not what Prof. McDermott said, though this may have been
illegal, but rather whether the advice was accurately based, in which
case we really will need to know more about Prof. Massad’s class – and
why his colleagues think that his Orthodox Jewish students will be so
uncomfortable there that they need to avoid taking his classes and to
study different topics entirely.”

THE IMPORTANT question is not
just whether students are uncomfortable, but whether dangerous racist
ideas, passed off as ethnic critique of media, are informing faculty at a
prestigious US university, and why so few are alarmed at this problem.

Massad
has not only categorized the world into “Jewish Berensons” and “brown”
Brazilians and the “infection” of “cross-racial romance,” but has also
castigated homosexuals. In Desiring Arabs (University of Chicago, 2007)
Massad accused “white US sexual politics” of trying to create a queer
planet.

“The Gay International, which both produces homosexuals,
as well as gays and lesbians, where they do not exist, and represses
same-sex desires,” he wrote. He claims that “the Gay International is
aided by two other phenomena accompanying its infiltration of the
international public sphere – namely, the spread of AIDs on an
international scale....”

He asserts that this international gay
lobby, which we should recall bears a striking resemblance to what Henry
Ford and Hitler called the “International Jew,” launched a “most recent
campaign [which] has targeted the Palestinian Authority” and which was
“inaugurated” by “openly gay anti-Palestinian Massachusetts congressman
Barney Frank... [a] Jewish American.”

So we see how the Gay
International, as Massad terms it, works with American Jewish
congressmen and AIDs, to “produce” homosexuals in the Muslim world.

He
concludes that in the end the agenda will be defeated, “its missionary
achievement, however, will be the creation not of a queer planet, to use
Michael Warner’s apt term, but of a straight one.”

Scary stuff?
This isn’t emanating from drunks in some trailer park back yard, it is
coming from the halls of a prestigious American university. The
university is actively collaborating, by its silence, with modern racial
propaganda which seeks to divide all Americans into racial categories;
bashes gay rights activists as part of a “Gay International” and seems
to view them all as part of an Elders of Zion-style conspiracy whose control of Homeland is only part of a larger puzzle.

As Massad writes, “that ‘Homeland’
(broadcast on the Showtime cable channel) is an American adaptation of
an Israeli series titled ‘Hatufim’ (Hostages) that airs on Israeli
television station Channel 2 will surprise no one... [the show’s
character] the American Jew Saul Berenson who is unsurprisingly the
CIA’s Middle-East Division Chief.”

No surprise, because the Zionists and the American Jews are insinuated to be working together, evidently using Homeland as the vehicle, “reflective of American and Israeli fantasies of anti-Muslim American multiculturalism.”

Martin
Luther King asked us to judge people based on the content of their
mind, not the color of their skin. But at Columbia university, judging
by the intellectual output of this faculty member, students risk being
segregated and the content of their minds subordinated to the color of
their skin. Hitlerian rhetoric may be enjoying a renaissance, and the
American values of Dr. King being trodden under, all in the name of
pseudo-academic racism disguised as anti-American and anti-Israel
critical scholarship.

1 comment:

Honestly, I am not a fan of Claire Danes (who was previously criticized for comparing her Filipinim hosts to cockroaches, while shooting a mediocre film there), but there is a petition in circulation titled "Dismiss Professor Joseph Massad" (not sure if it's still active, but it's worth mentioning, since it's still archived on search engines).

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